McCallum and Health Minister Jane Philpott spoke to reporters after a visit to Jordan’s Zaatari refugee camp, home to some 80,000 Syrians fleeing their country’s nightmarish civil war.
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Afterward, he said refugees he spoke to, who were “quite content” in the camp, wanted to be able to return home and did not want to be resettled in the United States.
United Nations staff in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey are working tirelessly to help select the 15,000 Syrians who will be brought to Canada by the end of February directly by the government.
“Our caucus position remains that we’re supportive of the program as it is, because it’s worked for several decades”, said Rempel, the MP for Calgary Nose Hill. “In order to stop this flow of refugees the fighting actually needs to stop”. Carson said of Syrian refugees: “If there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you’re probably not going to assume something good about that dog”. “And making the very hard decision to return to Syria because they can not make ends meet here”. “How do you put Syria back together again?”
Brownback and the other governors have drawn sharp criticism over those policies, and some legal experts have suggested they have no legal authority to discriminate in the use of federally funded refugee aid. The Liberals have said they will spend up to $678 million over six years on the Syrian resettlement effort.
Colyer said he agrees with the security concerns, although he doesn’t necessarily think it’s the most important concern. “Canada is upholding its humanitarian tradition by offering help and protection to those most in need”.
They will contribute to the goal of bringing in 10,000 Syrian refugees by December 31. They cite the risk of militants slipping through, especially after the November 13 attacks in Paris by Islamic State.
Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion said Canada has received a positive reaction from most of those countries, as well as requests to take more refugees.
Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer spent the Thanksgiving weekend on a medical mission treating patients at a refugee camp on the Syrian-Jordanian border. He says Jordan, in particular, has stepped up to help, seeing its population swell about 25 percent in recent years with refugees, not only from Syria, but also Iraq.
The U.N. refugee agency says some 628,000 registered refugees are in Jordan, but growing numbers have left regional host countries for Europe.
Private sponsors in more than 100 communities have applications in process to sponsor a Syrian refugee.
While hundreds of Syrian refugees continue to arrive on Canadian soil daily, it’s becoming more clear how many will be settled in London. “But they need a lot more help”. “We can’t just say to these countries that the burden is completely on them”, she said.
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His comments reflected a rudimentary understanding of the scope of the Syrian refugee crisis, Nezer said. Would I prefer to move to Canada and stay in a refugee community there, or to be shipped to Switzerland or somewhere I did not know the language, have the currency and probably lose track of my family and friends? “You can not get an appreciation for the scale of this crisis and the global implications of it by spending a day or two talking to a few refugees in one location”.
